Ok it's time for someone to call for an end to the violent protests.

[kacekwl]

Someone has to stop this now. I'm sure the president will do nothing but fuck this up more. Anger for not being heard is understood and now is the time to step back and listen for a response. Please enough violence and destruction for now and give the serious people a chance to engage each other. There are people who want to actually work toward solving problems, let's give them a chance.

[Laelth]

2. We lack national leadership.

If not the President, who has the authority to call for an end to the violence? Who would even listen?

“There can be no peace without justice.” - MLK, Jr.

-Laelth

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. America cannot begin to heal until Trump is GONE

Of all the bad times to have this scumbag in power...

[smirkymonkey]

8. +1000

[lagomorph777]

10. He is the cause of the unrest; it's not coincidental he's in power at this moment.

He's also the main cause of the pandemic; having deliberately failed to address it like almost every civilized nation has.

[MacKasey]

4. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Someone everyone can trust

[LovingA2andMI]

5. This is not going to stop

Until Trump is gone. The Reality!

[gratuitous]

6. We could start with the area chiefs of police

There seem to be some rather suspicious white dudes walking around, casually trying to stir up trouble and encourage looting by breaking windows at businesses. Stop sending undercover cops into the midst of the demonstrations to foment violence.

[Shell_Seas]

7. Are you kidding? No. They have to arrest those cops.

That's the only way this ends. And as long as they don't arrest them, it's going to get bigger and spread to more cities.

[happy feet]

12. This!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lagomorph777]

13. Exactly; and the presser yesterday by the US and Country Attorneys inflamed the suituation.

Mentioning Trump and Barr multiple times was surely designed to fan the flames. That was a clear signal that they intend to block justice.

[kacekwl]

16. I agree.

And protests peacefully to demand this now is definitely in order.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, Floyd was already hand cuffed when they murdered him.

[Faux pas]

9. There's

a difference between protesters and rioters. Please don't lump them into the same category.

[Amishman]

15. this, applying pressure through protests does not require any violence

The rioting needs to end before more lives are lost. It is all to easy to imagine one of last night's fires spreading to housing, or a frightened store owner firing blindly into a crowd.

[GemDigger]

27. Then you should tell that to the white cop incognito who broke windows to start the looting.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213498700

[Amishman]

34. and all of the others who looted and burned were secret government operatives too?

sorry, I am suspicious of conspiracy theories in general, and even if true it doesn't explain or excuse everything that happened afterwards.

[GemDigger]

35. No it does not excuse it but it sure as hell was the opening door. By a COP who knew

exactly what would happen.

[bigtree]

11. arrest the perps who killed Mr. Floyd

...and you'll see most of the unrest subside, for a time until there's actual justice.

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

14. This can stop...

...as soon as the murderers are arrested.

[kacekwl]

17. Yes assembly the protesters in front of police

and government building and demand this. You can be heard without being violent. I hope all the protesters and those who are interested are registered and plan on voting or running for office themselves. The sooner the problem people are removed the better it will be.

[MineralMan]

18. Many have already done so, including many leaders in the

AA community. However, calling for an end to it does not necessarily stop it from happening. Individuals have agency over their own actions.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. You would shoot into a crowd when people break windows?

[beachbumbob]

22. they would be given fair warning before shots are fired over their heads, These people crossed the

line and no longer "victims" the first time they break a store window or throw a fire bomb.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. If someone broke windows and you were there, armed, you would say something to the effect

of, "I'm going to shoot you for breaking those windows," and then would shoot people?

[GemDigger]

28. You need to watch this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213498700

It is a cop.

[sarisataka]

31. About a week ago there were DUers

Calling for shooting into crowds that were doing less.

They were wrong and anyone calling for increasing the violence now is wrong.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

32. This place is amazing sometimes.

[bigtree]

25. these are often impoverished communities

...calling for martial law and summary execution of someone affected by those dire situations, determined to steal, is barbaric nonsense.

What is it about the inhumanity of shooting unarmed people (with live rounds, even) that escapes you?

[SlogginThroughIt]

24. There has been a chance for decades. A century or more.

I am a white guy living in the most renown entitled and privileged suburb just south of minneapolis whose residents are labeled cake eaters and even I can tell you that the AA population HAS BEEN WAITING AND LISTENING AND NOT A DAMNED THING IS BEING DONE FOR THEM. Of course I grew up on the east side if saint paul and the midway area as well so I have been exposed to the shit that goes on in these communities. But look, it has been decades. Hell longer than that.... AA and POC built this damned country and they are continually held down by the system devised for white folk by white folk. They get treated like shit every damned day. I have to imagine (I have to because I am a white male) that people telling them to calm down and listen and work through it is infuriating on a level that we cannot even imagine.

I don’t like seeing buildings burning and all of that but when they kneel we tell them no. When they march we don’t ask why. When they speak we as a nation pay lip service in return. When they ask for mercy we kill them.

This is about George Floyd.... But it isn’t JUST about George Floyd.

Playing bu the tules is NOT working and us on the sidelines saying that they need to continue to work within the system isn’t helping.

[obamanut2012]

26. Then arrest the cops

[qwlauren35]

29. Arrest the cop, the violence will stop.

It's kind of a no-brainer.

[Voltaire2]

30. Arrest the criminals who killed George Floyd.

Problem solved.

[gibraltar72]

33. The message was delivered yesterday

It won't get better until some sense of justice is served. Freeman neglected to say it was a black cop he got convicted. You can't hold that disastrous of a press conference and not get that exact result.

[McCamy Taylor]

36. The protester who calls for violence is the undercover cop.

[c-rational]

37. It is time for the powers that be to provide actual justice.